Bank Alarm

A federal agent learns the gangsters he's been investigating have kidnapped his sister.

Cast

Conrad Nagel

as Alan O'Connor

Eleanor Hunt

as Bobbie Reynolds

Wilma Francis

as Kay O'Connor

Vince Barnett

as Clarence "Bulb" Callahan

Wheeler Oakman

as Karlotti

Frank Milan

as Jerome Turner

William L. Thorne

as Macy

Nat Carr

as Yoritz

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Was there ever a newspaper called the "Los Angeles Argus"? Well that's the opening banner headline that tells us what this film is about - a series of bank robberies in California. Conrad Nagel is despatched by the US Justice Department to get to the bottom of it, and with Eleanor Hunt sets about do...

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